A Joyous Christmas (TV Movie 2017)

A Joyous Christmas: Directed by Allan Harmon. With Natalie Knepp, Michael Rady, Bonnie Bedelia, Steve Bacic. A young self-help author returns to her hometown during the Christmas holidays to promote her new book. She soon discovers the true meaning of Christmas and family.

“I absolutely loved this movie. Natalie Knepp plays Rachel Kennedy a motivational speaker who returns to her home of Fall Oaks, Massachusetts for an event near Christmas. The bad guy manager was played very well by Steve Bacic. The good guy producer Jack is played by Michael Rady. He starred in Christmas in Homestead (2016) which I have not seen, but probably will after seeing him here. The scene where Rachel and Jack first meet is great as he is asking her whether he should get the Santa or Snowman tie. The last main character is Joy who is the reason the movie is named a Joyous Christmas (very well done). u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie to its success focuses on Rachel. Natalie Knepp seemed so familiar to me, but I havenu0026#39;t seen her in other roles. Seems like this is her biggest role and she was superb. I did see she was in Loving Leah 8 years ago as u0026quot;the female guardu0026quot; (very small part). I will go out of my way to see her again. This movie came close to getting a perfect 10 from me. The story has a little surprise between Jack and Joy, which was good. My criticism is the revealing could have been done better maybe involving Rachel a little more. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI am happy to watch it again. The scenes and dynamic between Rachel and Jack are good. We have some singing by Jack and piano playing by Joy.”